Image Captioning: reading plan

Overview

This repository contains a working research note about Image Captioning. It organizes motivation, related work, a falsifiable hypothesis, and an evaluation plan. It is not presented as a completed paper or a release of trained models.

Changelog

  • 2026-10-07 β€” initial upload
  • 2026-10-21 β€” config and docs sync

Scope and limitations

Exploratory by design: no benchmark claims, no completed ablations, no released code, no trained checkpoint. The references are a starting point for verification, not evidence that the study has run.

Roadmap

Next steps, in no particular order: a cleaner entry point, input-shape docs, and a small evaluation script if time permits.

Related work

A reading list around Image Captioning is being assembled. Entries will be added as the note matures; suggestions via repository discussions are welcome.

Open questions

  • which baselines are actually comparable under matched capacity?
  • what is the minimum data exposure for a meaningful signal?
  • which confounders would invalidate a naive comparison?

What is covered

  • the scope of the research question and likely confounders
  • a proposed comparison with matched baselines
  • concrete evaluation context such as MS COCO Captions, NoCaps, and TextCaps
  • reproducibility checks, failure modes, and open questions
  • topic-relevant references

Files

  • summary.md β€” primary artifact
  • README.md β€” this documentation
  • config.json β€” architecture configuration
  • training_args.json β€” default experiment settings
  • model.safetensors β€” initialization checkpoint

License

Released under mit. Review the source-data terms separately when this repository is used with external datasets.

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